Fothergill's Lettuce Lollo Rossa Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Lactuca sativa, a celebrated Italian-style loose-leaf variety.
• Plant Class: Annual Salad Vegetable, growing rapidly from seed to provide a quick, continuous source of fresh summer leaves.
• Growth Habit: Forms beautiful, neat, and compact round mounds of non-heading foliage, making it highly efficient for space-saving garden layouts.
• Visual & Textural Interest: Features heavily frilled, intricately cut, and curled leaves with vibrant green bases that bleed into a striking, intense ruby-red edge.
• Flexible Harvesting: An outstanding choice for "cut-and-come-again" harvesting; simply snip individual outer leaves as required, and the plant will continuously produce fresh growth.
• Flavour & Texture: Delivers a soft, crisp, and slightly nutty flavour with zero bitterness, adding a wonderful visual lift and volume to home-tossed salads.
• Versatile Space Saver: Due to its shallow root system and ornamental beauty, it is perfect for edging sunny vegetable beds, companion planting, or growing in shallow patio pots and window boxes.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow thinly directly into fertile, well-prepared, and moisture-retentive soil from spring through midsummer. Position in a bright, sunny spot, though light afternoon shade is highly beneficial during hot summer spells.
• Maintenance & Successive Sowing: Keep the soil consistently damp to maintain tender leaves and prevent the plants from bolting. For a non-stop summer supply, sow a small batch of seeds every two to three weeks, and thin seedlings to 20cm (8in) apart if you wish to grow full, round rosettes.